I actually saw this on the big screen when Empire Pictures (Big Bad Charlie Band's first smack at a film company). It was in some greasy, sleezy dive called the Electric Theater on Market Street in SF. They would show a triple bill fpr week then rotate it to something else. I even saw Ghost Town (Empire's final gasp) there. Others were Dolls, Transmutations (aka Underworld) and Necropolis!

Back to Rex -

This was a fairly faithful adaptation of Barker's story, but it just did not work all that well. I particularly missed the part of the story with Rex lounging around with the lead character's kid's corpse, scooping the guts with a finger and scarfing them down. Yuck, but extremely effective (Clive has forgotten just how Grand his Guignol used to be). I still liked the movie though, but the monster needed to be better. It was just some guy in a phony looking masked. And his mouth was far too small.

Little known fact about Underworld: Back in `82,an obscure electronic act called Freur wrotemusic for this film. Later on, Freur wouldbreak up, and the remaining members would startanother band called, yep, Underworld!